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Researchers further deduced that a likely culprit of the two-way relationship between kidney disease and diabetes is urea, the nitrogen-containing waste product in blood that comes from the breakdown of protein in foods. Kidneys normally remove urea from the blood, but it can build up when kidney function slows down.

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"The risk difference between high and low levels is 688 cases of diabetes per 100,000 people each year," said the study's senior author Ziyad Al-Aly, an assistant professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. "This means that for every 100,000 people, there would be 688 more cases of diabetes each year in those with higher urea levels."

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Al-Aly tested this in human. "Our results were almost an exact replica of the mouse study. The results showed a clear relationship between urea levels and risk of diabetes," he said.

The findings are significant because urea levels can be lowered through medication, diet and other means, thereby allowing for improved treatment and possible prevention of diabetes.

The study was published in Kidney International on Monday.

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With the government forces in control of 75 percent of the capital city of Deir al-Zour, the terror-designated group is still holding areas close to the government-controlled ones.

But their positions have been largely exposed now that the airbase of Deir al-Zour returned operational after the siege is lifted.

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